By Swami Lakshmanjoo,John Hughes
The chapters of this e-book, Kashmir Shaivism–The mystery ultimate, are in keeping with the main crucial teachings of Abhinvagupta’s magnum opus Tantrāloka. right here, the 20 th century's nice thinker saint Swami Lakshmanjoo, provides a scientific unfolding of the Tantric teachings of the traditional culture of Kashmir Shaivism. This profound culture, lengthy enshrouded in secrecy, is so wealthy and precise in its descriptions of the ascent of person recognition to common God recognition, that it's been characterised as ‘a mystical geography of awareness’. right here lies the foremost that unlocks the secrets and techniques of the oral culture of Kashmir Shaivism, and offers the reader with the required instruments to enterprise into this wondrous landscape.
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